Bookworms go on advancers (MMR)
At a young age everyone gets asked, what they want to be when they grow up. My answers always surprised people. My earliest responses were architect, engineer, archeologist, artist, art teacher, and the curator of the Louvre. When my collage academic advisor asked me my career choice or my major, I looked back at what I told my parents when they first asked me. Know despite the strange looks and laughter I tell people “when I grow up I want to be Indiana Jones.” Indiana Jones was a teacher and an archeologist and believed strongly about the impotents of museums. Indiana Jones shares these and other characteristics with other leading men in movie that brings advancer to history. Like Flynn Carsen in The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code.
These movies fantasize the lives of average men. In these movies being a historian what you would think to be a frightfully duel job is twisted in to a thrilling advancer. The main character gets the chance to travel the world looking for buried treasure, which is always hidden behind conspiracy and mystery that can always be salved with their whit charm and their vast historical knowledge. Know in the real world these jobs are boiled down to their simplest form. In the real world retrieving a priceless artifact involves traveling to the middle of a hot desert digging for days on end with a tiny little shovel and a little broom to carefully and slowly revile pieces of broken pottery. In the movies all you see is a buff handsome man clutching a gold idle running from pissed of pigmies in a desert oasis.
The main character is a male ranging from the age of thirty to mid forty something. These everyday average men in the movies have dedicated their normal lives to the academics. Indiana Jones is a teacher, Robert Langdon was a writer, and Flynn Carsen was a professional student with a doctorate or degree in twenty two different subjects. Know these types of men teachers, writers, and students are normally pictured behind a desk or in a library. These bookworms are thrown in to an adventure as a hero. Only in the world of Hollywood can a stereotypical nerd be a hero. The hero that saves the day retrieves a priceless artifact and gets the girl
The girl is another element of these movies the damsel in distress. In every movie the hero is paired with an equally intelligent but somehow physically inferior female counterpart. In the movies the female starts of as a guide or an equal someone who can pull their own wait and help, but always manages to get in to trouble. This creates the false impression that only a strong man can save the day and the woman need saving. I am obviously pointing out that most historians are portrayed as male, and most action heroes are also male. In these three movies Indiana Jones, The Liberian, and The Da Vinci Code, the girl gets in trouble and the man swops in to save her at the last second.
In the movies a historian is stereotypically portrayed as strong, overly intelligent male in his mid to late thirties. who during the week sits behind a desk but on the weekends gets to travel the world in search of burrier treasure, solves elaborate puzzles, fights for what he believes is right, and in the end always gets the girl.






